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Start-Up Activity
On the board, write "+ = and" then " – = not" then "= = is." Challenge students to decipher your strange hieroglyphics. ("The plus sign means and," "the minus sign means not," and "the equals sign means is.") Once you point out these meanings, those marks won't look like hieroglyphics anymore.
Help your student see that writing and math both just involve using symbols to represent ideas. That's why the two disciplines can work so well together.
Think About It
“Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.”
—Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Start-Up Activity
On the board, write "+ = and" then " – = not" then "= = is." Challenge students to decipher your strange hieroglyphics. ("The plus sign means and," "the minus sign means not," and "the equals sign means is.") Once you point out these meanings, those marks won't look like hieroglyphics anymore.
Help your student see that writing and math both just involve using symbols to represent ideas. That's why the two disciplines can work so well together.
Think About It
“Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.”
—Carl Friedrich Gauss
